Pokémon: An Encounter with You

Chapter 474 The Narrowing Passage

"Did you see anything?"

After a long time, when Manaphy blew the freezing wind for the third time, Wu asked softly.

"Not yet..." Xier frowned slightly, holding the booklet with various super-ancient texts in one hand, and put the thumb of the other hand to his mouth, biting his cleanly cut nails unconsciously... It seemed that this was a habitual action of his when he entered a state of complete thinking.

"Aria, not this one... Cantata... not this one either... and Confessions..."

The more Xier translated, the more annoyed he became. After waiting for an hour or two, they had translated almost half of the densely packed text on the wall, but it was all very meaningless stuff.

“Damn, this ‘hot spring ruins’ just likes to cram in a lot of confusing information!??”

Noticing that Xier was in a bad mood, Lian Bi immediately reminded him in a low voice: "Don't be anxious, just take your time."

The wind chimes flew silently to Xi'er's head. The crisp sound of the bells combined with Manaphy's freezing wind helped Xi'er suppress the inexplicable irritability in his heart.

"Huh...thank you." He quickly adjusted his mentality, took a deep breath, and thanked Feng Lingling and Shi Qiu.

"Give me a little more time."

Having said that, he once again began to devote himself to it, processing the huge flow of information constructed by the complex and lengthy ancient characters on the totem, deciphering the code words conveyed between these characters and the secrets contained therein.

Shi Qiu glanced at the Rotom system beside him, which had gone silent after taking a picture of the totem, and sighed.

I was so excited that I just left without thinking, and I forgot the most important thing!

If the Rotom system had recorded some information and data about the investigation and research in advance, the current work would have been much easier.

The other four people just waited quietly. Apart from the occasional ringing of the bell and the blowing of the cold wind, they didn't dare to breathe.

Time passed silently, and about half an hour later, with Xier's silent curse of "Fuck!", several people immediately perked up and looked at Xier.

Although the boy was cursing inwardly, the relief and joy in his eyes clearly showed that there had been progress.

"Any idea?" Shi Qiu asked.

Xier nodded. "Well, there's something wrong with the way I looked at the land before. According to the normal method of deciphering the ancient characters from the upper right to the lower left, these are just poems with very little nutritional value. However, if we translate them clockwise from the center point, the answer to the mechanism will appear."

"Awu, release your Molten Ant, and...Axue, your Manaphy...First, use sparks to light the torches around the edges, then use water waves to wash the ground beneath our feet, and finally use jet flames to stir up steam from the remaining water flow!"

"But remember to be careful and make sure the torches around you don't go out!"

"No problem!" Awu responded, took out Ant-Metronma's Poké Ball and issued an order.

Shi Qiu also nodded and gently patted Manaphy's head in his arms.

Several people quickly started to move, and as torches were lit up all around, the entire space became much more spacious and brighter.

The sounds of flames and splashes of water rang out, along with rising steam. The flames on the surrounding torches were transformed into a hazy light yellow by the water vapor.

Click... click click...

"This is......"

There was a heavy sound, as if something huge and heavy was being dragged.

The moment the sound stopped, the water vapor in front of him dissipated at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The water mist that had been filling the "Hot Spring Ruins" and was forcibly suppressed by the freezing wind several times did not return again, and even the humidity and temperature of the air returned to normal.

At the same time, the totem stone wall blocking the way of the few people had disappeared without a trace, and in its place was another quiet and long passage.

"This should be the last passage... leading to the real treasure of the 'Hot Spring Ruins'." Ivan said.

The few of them looked at each other, gathered the elves again, and cautiously explored the passage.

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"Here...is it getting narrower here?"

A few minutes later, Awu accidentally bumped into Lian Bi who was walking side by side. Lian Bi frowned at first, then looked at the passage in front of him and asked tentatively.

Shi Qiu nodded, confirming her guess: "It is getting narrower, and if nothing unexpected happens, it will be even narrower at the back."

He had already discovered this phenomenon as he was using the power of wave guidance to explore the way in real time.

Although the passages here are getting narrower, fortunately, they are not like the previous passages leading to the secret room, with various unfriendly elf groups.

On this winding and rugged road, there was nothing else except them and their elves.

After walking for about ten more minutes, the passage was now narrow enough to accommodate only one person.

Several people were forced to change from the previous 2:1:3 formation to a straight line formation.

As they went deeper, the cramped space began to make their faces gradually become gloomy.

"At this rate, there won't even be enough space for one more person!"

Shi Qiu closed his eyes and felt it for a while: "There is wind here, which means there is an exit outside?"

Or perhaps, it is the place leading to the final destination.

"Can we use violence to clear the way?" Ivan asked quietly.

Xier shook his head. "The rock wall is at a very fragile E-level. Forget about using violence to clear the way. It's best not to use any moves that are even slightly more powerful."

No wonder there are no elves here, otherwise any slight movement would cause the road to collapse.

"Can you teleport?" Lian Bi asked unwillingly.

"No!" Xier said immediately, "It's too dangerous!"

Without planting the coordinates of the super power spell, I can only teleport based on my feelings in this environment.

If the natural bird teleported them into the stone body, they would have said goodbye to the world.

"What should we do? Go back and rest?"

Success is right in front of you, and now you are going back the way you came?

"My suggestion is this." Xi'er nodded. "This is only our first exploration. It's not easy to get to this point... As for how to get through this road, we have to go back and slowly figure it out."

"no need."

Just when the others were about to say something, they suddenly heard Shi Qiu next to them speak.